NCAR/HAO Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics
General Circulation Model

Release notes for version tiegcm1.91 (cvs tag tiegcm1-91)

December 10, 2008

The following summarizes changes to the TIEGCM model from v1.9 (released 6/20/2008),
to v1.91 (released 12/10/2008):

  • New aurora.F with dawn/dusk asymmetry, eflux2d, rote, roth, BY effect, comments, etc.
  • Enable BY effect in Heelis run from namelist input file (aurora.F)
  • New sub wei05loc in wei05sc.F to position aurora wrt Weimer05 convection.
  • Correct inconsistency in calculation of J_e2 (dynamo.F and current.F)
  • Revised gswm nf_get_var_double calls for intel ifort compiler (gswm.F)
  • Improve error message when missing IMF data encountered (function ismissing in imf.F)
  • Correct copy of source history structure to output (sub copyhist in hist.F, output.F)
  • Enable writing model day 366 as calendar day 1 (nchist.F) for smooth year-boundary transition
  • Correction to ZMBOT,ZMTOP in defs.h template
  • Insure non-negative N2 at interfaces (qinit.F and qrj.F)
  • Increase max number of time-dependent namelist read parameters from 100 to 500 (params.F)
  • Add processor binding in scripts/tiegcm-ibm.job, and 64K page sizes in Makefile template.